AI & Copyright Case Tracker

The development and use of AI models and AI systems gives rise to significant legal questions in the area of copyrights and related rights. Our AI & Copyright Case Tracker provides an up-to-date overview of ongoing lawsuits at the intersection of AI and copyright law across Europe. It brings together relevant cases in one place and highlights the key legal issues at stake.

We aim to keep this list as up-to-date as possible. Since not all cases are published, this list can of course never be complete. We appreciate any indication of further relevant cases. Where cases are still pending, we aim to rely on reliable sources including official press releases. Please note that we generally do not list any cases outside of Europe, in particular, the US, and outside of copyright. We may, however, include selected relevant cases from related fields of law.

Name of case / decision and parties	Date	Status	Claim Type	Key Issues	Country	Source
Voice actor v. YouTube creator, Regional court of Berlin	20 August 2025	Decision	Claim for damages and injunctive relief	The unlicensed use of an AI generated voice in a YouTube video which is strikingly similar to the plaintiff actor’s real voice infringes the actor’s right of personality. Freedom of art and expression could not justify the use due to the commercial nature of the use	Germany	Link
DJV e.V. v. Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, Munich Regional Court	16 April 2025	Pending	Copyright and unfair contractual terms claim	The plaintiff claims that standard terms and conditions in contracts between a newspaper and a freelance journalist that require the journalist to grant the newspaper rights to use journalists' work for AI training and use and permit the transfer of these rights of use without further remuneration should be seen as invalid unfair contract terms creating an unreasonable disadvantage for the journalist.	Germany	Link
Like Company v. Google Ireland Limited, Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) (referring court: Budapest District Court), C-250/25	3 April 2025	Pending	Copyright infringement claim	The Hungarian court requested a preliminary ruling by the European Court of Justice on the following questions: Communication to the public: Is it a copyright infringement if the chatbot shows parts of articles that are protected; if so, does it matter that the AI chatbot only predicts words based on patterns it has learned? Reproduction During Training: Does using patterns from existing texts during training qualify as reproduction, and is this allowed under the EU’s text and data mining exception? Reproduction by Output: Is it reproduction if the chatbot’s reply includes part or all of a press article based on a user's prompt?	Hungary	Link
Syndicat national de l’édition (SNE), Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL), and Syndicat national des auteurs et des compositeurs (SNAC) v. Meta Platforms Inc., Paris Judicial Court, Third Chamber	March 2025	Pending	Copyright infringement claim	French collecting societies claim copyright infringement due to the alleged unauthorized use of copyright protected works for the purpose of training an AI model. economic unfairness (parasitism) due to the use of third party investment and creative efforts without contribution to their costs	France	Link
GEMA v. Suno Inc., Munich Regional Court	21 January 2025	Pending	Copyright infringement claim	German music collecting society GEMA claims that the AI tool Suno infringes copyright by generating content that closely resembles GEMA works that Suno used GEMA works for purposes of training its AI model without authorization.	Germany	Link
Publisher v. provider of an online search engine, Municipal Court of Appeals, 9.Pf.20.353/2024/6-II	3 Dezember 2024	Decision	Copyright infringement claim	The downloading and storage of data in the search engine’s index for the purpose of creating AI generated snippets of articles is permitted under the TDM exception The plaintiff did not opt out of the TDM in the form required by law.	Hungary	Link
GEMA v. OpenAI, L.L.C., and OpenAI Ireland Ltd., Munich Regional Court	13 November 2024	Pending	Copyright infringement claim	The German music collecting society GEMA claims that the defendant's chatbot uses copyright-protected song lyrics for training its AI without license the protected song lyrics are made publicly available in the output of the defendant's chatbot without remuneration	Germany	Link
DPG Media B.V., Mediahuis Nederland B.V., and Mediahuis NRC B.V. v. Knowledge Exchange B.V., under the name HowardsHome, Amsterdam District Court (Rechtbank Amsterdam), C/13/737170 / HA ZA 23-690	30 December 2024	Decision	Claims based on copyright infringement, infringement of press publisher`s right infringement of database rights	Dutch media companies claimed that the AI created summaries of protected works infringed copyright. The court decided that the use was justified by legal exceptions, including the TDM exception stated that opt-out declarations must be specific and that an opt-out declared via a robots.txt protocol excluding only certain AI bots was not a valid opt-out from the TDM exception.	Netherlands	Link
Robert Kneschke v. LAION e.V., Hamburg Regional Court, 310 O 227/23 (Appeal pending)	27 September 2024	Decision. Appeal pending	Copyright infringement claim	The defendant’s use of the plaintiff’s photography (matching a downloaded image with pre-existing descriptions) qualified as text and data mining for purposes of scientific research, without a possibility to opt out The TDM exception likely also covers uses for the purpose of AI training An out-opt to TDM must be specific, but can be declared in natural language in the terms and conditions of a website	Germany	Link
S. Š. v. Taubel Legal, advokátní kancelář s.r.o., Municipal Court in Prague, 10 C 13/2023	11 December 2023	Decision	Copyright infringement claim	Under Czech copyright law, only natural persons can be authors of copyright-protected works. An image generated by AI based on a common prompt does not qualify for copyright protection	Czech Republic	Link
Getty Images v Stability AI	January 2023	Pending	Copyright, trade mark and database rights infringement; claim for damages and injunctive relief	Getty claimed copyright, trade mark and database rights infringement in connection with: (i) Stability's training and development of the Stable Diffusion image generation model using Getty's images and captions, and (ii) the outputs of the Stable Diffusion model. Getty also claimed that Stability's importation and dealing with the Stable Diffusion model in the course of a business in the UK amounted to a secondary infringement of copyright on the basis that Stable Diffusion is an infringing copy of Getty's works and thereby an infringing article. Following a 3 week trial in June 2025, Getty is no longer making infringement claims in connection with the training and development of the Stable Diffusion model. Getty is also no longer making copyright infringement claims in connection with the outputs of Stable Diffusion. The Court will now decide the secondary infringement claim, which will have ramifications for models trained outside the UK, as well as the trade mark infringement claim in connection with the model outputs.	UK	Link Article Article